Mergi cu mine!

1 Peter 1:8

8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy.
9  for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls

8 ( Isus) pe care voi Il iubiti fara sa-L fi vazut, credeti in El fara sa-L vedeti si va bucurati cu o bucurie negraita si stralucita,

9. pentru ca veti dobandi, ca sfarsit al credintei voastre, mantuirea sufletelor voastre.

I am a Christian

Fii ceea ce esti- Lectii de viata

 sa fii ceea ce esti... Una dintre cele mai mari provocari in viata este sa  fii tu insuti, intr-o lume care incearca sa te faca precum toti ceilalti. Cineva va fi intotdeauna mai frumos ca tine, mai destept sau mai tanar, insa nimeni nu poate fi ca tine. Nu te schimba, pentru ca oamenii sa te placa. Fii tu insuti si oamenii potriviti te vor iubi pe tine, cel adevarat.

trecutul.. Nu vei putea incepe urmatorul capitol din viata ta, daca vei continua sa il citesti pe ultimul. frica sa nu gresesti... Facand ceva si obtinand un rezultat gresit este mai productiv decat sa nu faci nimic. Orice reusita are o urma de esec in spatele ei si orice esec te conduce spre succes. Vei ajunge sa regreti mai mult lucrurile pe care nu le-ai facut, decat pe cele pe care le-ai facut.probleme... Infrunta-le cu capul sus. Nu, nu va fi usor. Nu este nicio persoana in lume care poate depasi, fara sa greseasca, toate complicatiile cu care viata ne pune fata in fata. Nu suntem facuti sa rezolvam pe loc, toate probleme aparute. Nu asa am fost creati. De fapt, am fost creati sa ne suparam, sa ne intristam, sa fim raniti, sa ne impiedicam si sa cadem. Pentru ca tocmai acesta este intregul scop al vietii – sa ne infruntam problemele, sa invatam din ele, sa ne adaptam si sa le rezolvam in timp. Acesta este, in cele din urma, modul in care devenim persoanele care suntem.a minti.... Poti minti pe oricine din lumea intreaga, insa nu te poti pacali pe tine insuti. Vietile ni se imbunatatesc, numai atunci cand acceptam provocarile care ne apar in cale. Iar cea mai dificila dintre provocari este aceea de a fi sinceri cu noi insine.

nevoile proprii... Cel mai dureros lucru este sa te pierzi, pe tine insuti ca persoana, atunci cand iubesti pe cineva prea mult. Si sa uiti ca si tu esti special. Da, ajuta-i pe ceilalti, dar ajuta-te si pe tine. Daca exista vreodata vreun moment perfect pentru a-ti urma visul sau pentru a face ceva care conteaza pentru tine, acel moment e cel de acum.

 esti pregatit... Nimeni nu se simte niciodata 100% pregatit, atunci cand apare o noua sansa. Asta, pentru ca cele mai multe oportunitati din viata ne forteaza sa trecem dincolo de zona noastra de confort. In orice situatie, ne vom simti intai insufiecient pregatiti. Dar asta tine de procesul de invatare, nu-i asa?

relatii din motive gresite... Relatiile trebuie alese intelept. Este mai bine sa fii singur, decat intr-o companie neplacuta. Nu trebuie sa te grabesti. Daca trebuie sa se intample, se va intampla – la timpul potrivit, cu persoane potrivita si din motivele corecte. Indragosteste-te pentru ca asa simti, nu pentru ca te simti singur.

relatii noi ... Vei invata ca, in viata, oamenii pe care-i intalnesti, ii intalnesti cu un scop. Unii te vor testa, unii se vor folosi de tine, unii te vor invata cate ceva. Dar, cel mai important este ca, vor fi si cativa care vor scoate la iveala, tot ce-i mai bun din tine.

a concura cu toti ceilalti din jurul tau... Nu te mai gandi la ce fac ceilalti mai bine decat tine. Concentreaza-te sa iti bati zilnic, propriile recorduri. Succesul este, pana la urma, o lupta doar intre tine si propria-ti persoana.

invidios pe ceilalti... Invidia inseamna sa numeri toate harurile cu care au fost daruiti altii, in loc sa te uiti la tine si la ce ai primit tu.Intreaba-te urmatorul lucru: "Ce am eu si toata lumea isi doreste?".mustra pentru greselile vechi... Putem iubi persoanele nepotrivite si putem plange pentru ceea ce am gresit, insa, indiferent ce intorsatura ia viata, un lucru este sigur: greselile ne ajuta sa gasim acele persoane si acele lucruri care sunt potrivite pentru noi. Toti gresim, toti ne zbatem si chiar toti regretam anumite lucruri din trecutul nostru. Orice lucru care ti se intampla, bun sau rau, te pregateste pentru un moment care urmeaza sa vina.sa iti cumperi fericirea... Multe dintre lucrurile pe care ni le dorim sunt scumpe. Dar adevarul este ca lucrurile care ne aduc cu adevarat fericirea sunt gratuite – dragostea, rasul, prietenia... Completati voi lista mai departe.

asteptarea fericirii de la ceilalti... Daca nu esti multumit cu tine, asa cum esti, nu vei fi fericit nici in relatia cu alte persoane. Trebuie sa-ti creezi stabilitate si fericire in propria viata, inainte de a o impartasi cu altcineva.

a trai in gol, gandindu-te si razgandindu-te... Nu mai analiza asa de mult la fiecare situatie, caci vei crea probleme care nici macar nu existau. Evalueaza situatia si actioneaza. Nu poti schimba lucrurile cu care refuzi sa te confrunti. Progresul implica riscuri. Punct!Ca sa marchezi un gol, trebuie ca, intai, sa dai drumul la minge.
a-ti plange de mila... Surprizele neplacute cu care viata te pune fata in fata nu fac decat sa-ti netezeasca calea in directia care era menita pentru tine. Poate nu intelegi si nu vezi asta, in momentul in care lucrurile rele se petrec si poate ca iti va fi greu. Dar reflecta si la celelalte lucruri negative care ti s-au intamplat in trecut. Vei observa destul de des ca fiecare dintre ele te-a condus intr-un loc mai bun, catre o persoana mai buna, la o stare de spirit minunata sau o situatie fericita. Asa ca, zambeste! Lasa-i pe toti sa vada ca astazi esti mult mai puternic decat erai ieri. Si astfel, chiar vei fi.

a tine suparare... Nu-ti trai viata cu ura in suflet. Vei ajunge sa te ranesti mai mult pe tine, decat pe oamenii pe care ii urasti. Iertarea nu inseamna "Ceea ce mi-ai facut este in regula", ci iertarea inseamna " Nu o sa te las sa-mi strici fericirea, pentru totdeauna". Iertarea este raspunsul… Renunta la ranchiuna, gaseste-ti pacea si elibereaza-te. Si, nu uita, iertarea nu e numai pentru alte persoane, ea este si pentru tine. Atunci cand e nevoie, iarta-te si pe tine, mergi mai departe si incearca sa te descurci mai bine, data viitoare.

 nivelul ... Refuza sa-ti cobori standardele, doar pentru a-i multumi pe cei care refuza sa si le ridice pe ale lor.

explicatii si scuze la nesfarsit, pentru greseli... Prietenii tai nu au nevoie de asta, iar dusmanii tai oricum nu vor crede. Doar fa ceea ce simti ca este corect.
frumusetea bucuriilor marunte... Bucura-te de lucrurile marunte, pentru ca intr-o zi te vei uita inapoi si vei descoperi ca ele erau, de fapt, lucrurile importante. Cele mai bune perioade din viata ta vor fi acele momente mici, aparent neimportante, pe care le-ai petrecut razand cu cei care conteaza pentru tine.

 sa faci lucrurile perfect... Societatea nu premiaza perfectionistii, ci ii recompenseaza pe cei care duc lucrurile la bun sfarsit.

calea usoara... Viata nu e usoara, mai ales atunci cand planuiesti sa obtii ceva care sa merite. Nu alege calea usoara, care sa te duca acolo. Realizeaza ceva extraordinar.

 lucrurile sunt minunate, atunci cand nu sunt... Este in regula sa te impiedici din cand in cand . Nu trebuie sa te prefaci sau sa demonstrezi mereu ca esti puternic. Nu ar trebui sa fii preocupat nici de ceea ce cred ceilalti – plangi, daca simti nevoia –este sanatos sa iti versi lacrimile. Cu cat mai curand vei face asta, cu atat mai repede vei fi pregatit sa zambesti din nou.a-i invinui pe altii pentru necazurile tale... Iti vei realiza visele, in masura in care iti vei asuma responsabilitatea pentru viata ta.Cand ii invinuiesti pe altii pentru lucrurile prin care treci, le predai lor controlul asupra acelor parti din viata ta.

griji... Grijile nu vor face ca ziua de maine sa fie mai putin grea, dar sigur vor face ca ziua de astazi sa fie mai putin vesela. Pentru a afla daca merita sa te ingrijorezi pentru o situatie intreba-te urmatorul lucru: "Va mai conta situatia asta peste un an? Peste trei? Peste cinci?" Daca raspunsul este nu, e clar ca iti faci griji inutil.

concentrare pe ce NU vrei sa se intample... Concentreaza-te pe ce iti doresti sa se petreaca. Gandirea pozitiva este ingredientul de baza al oricarei povesti de succes. Daca te trezesti in fiecare dimineata gandindu-te ca ceva minunat ti se va intampla in ziua respectiva si esti putin atent, vei observa destul de des ca ai avut dreptate.

a fi nerecunoscator. Oricat de buna sau grea a fost pana in acel moment, trezeste-te dimineata si fii multumit ca traiesti. Cineva, undeva se lupta cu disperare sa traiasca. In loc sa te gandesti la ceea ce iti lipseste, gandeste-te la ceea ce ai tu si le lipseste altora.

Viata este prea scurta pentru a o petrece cu oameni care nu merita. Daca cineva te vrea in viata lui, iti va face loc in ea, nu trebuie sa te straduiesti prea mult sa il capeti. Nu incerca sa te bagi cu forta in sufletul cuiva care trece cu vederea valoarea pe care o ai.

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Inima Noua vs. Inima Veche

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Auschwitz Forgotten Evidence

Cautam o biserica ?

Grace Perfecting Strength in Weakness

Access to Grace

CARTEA LUI ELI / THE BOOK OF ELI

Living by Grace: Humility and Faith

Humility and Grace

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Quotes about God [ Authors A to E ]

Quotes about God [ Authors F to K ]

Quotes about God [ Authors L to Z ]

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Proverbs: A Mini-Guide to Life [external source]

There are five things that comprise a wise, godly life. They function both as means to becoming wise and godly as well as signs that you are growing into such a life:

1. Put your heart’s deepest trust in God and his grace. Every day remind yourself of his unconditioned, covenantal love for you. Do not instead put your hopes in idols or in your own performance.

Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man. Trust in the LORD with all your heart (Prov 3:3-5a)

2. Submit your whole mind to the Scripture. Don’t think you know better than God’s word. Bring it to bear on every area of life. Become a person under authority.

Lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. (Prov 3:5b-6)

3. Be humble and teachable toward others. Be forgiving and understanding when you want to be critical of them; be ready to learn from others when they come to be critical of you.

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones. (Prov 3:7-8)

4. Be generous with all your possessions, and passionate about justice. Share your time, talent, and treasure with those who have less.

Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine. (Prov 3:9-10)

5. Accept and learn from difficulties and suffering. Through the gospel, recognize them as not punishment, but a way of refining you.

My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline and do not resent his rebuke, because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in. (Prov 3:11-12)



Redeemer City to City
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Quotes about God [ Authors L to Z ]

C.S. Lewis: "I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true."


Thomas A. Lewis, posting to an Amazon.com chat: "I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus. ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe."


Rev. Mackeral: "... one of the evidences of the greatness of God is that he doesn't have to exist in order to save us." [A paraphrase]


"A Pilgrim:" "Boycotting anti-Christian movies and picketing abortion clinics only serves to fuel the God-haters of this world and leads to even more God-hating. What the unbelieving world needs to see from the Church is a 'peculiar people' who are not of this world, but are truly transformed by the Gospel." From an Amazon.com book review


Sarah Palin: "God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that." From a speech in 2007-JUN at the Wasilla Assembly of God church. 1,2


Pope John Paul II: "An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism which has cast doubt on reason's ability to know the truth, which alone satisfies the human heart's restless quest for meaning."


Anne Provoost: "If your God is going to drown the world; if your God is going to bring a flood, then why don't you pick a different God?"


Ronald Reagan: "Without God, there is no virtue, because there's no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we're mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." 3


Brian Robertson: "God is diverse and inclusive, not limited and exclusive. You're thinking of a Country Club."


"God is not limited to our own prejudices, hatred, fear and projections. In fact, those very things keep us from experiencing the Mystery and we are to celebrate God wherever that Presence can be glimpsed."



"Setarcos'" posting to an Amazon.com chat: When asked: "I am a religious person but I like to hear people's reasons for not believing in god," Setarcos answered: "Is 'which one?' a good enough answer?


Dorothea Soelle: "God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them. If the lonely and the frightened are to be comforted, it is our embrace, not God's, that will comfort them."


John Spong, retired Episcopal bishop:
"I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son."


"A God who is defined as an external being, supernatural in power, who hands out rewards and punishment according to human deserving, is a rather primitive, childlike deity. This is nonetheless the definition underlying most forms of liturgical worship. No change will occur until this definition is raised to consciousness and dealt with."

George A. Staffa: "Beware of 'God of the Gaps', the Incredible Shrinking Deity who fills the gaps in our understanding until understanding shrinks both gaps and God down to nothing."


UCADIA web site: "...the image of a deity capable to intervening to stop evil but choosing not to act is probably a worse concept than an impotent God that can do nothing." 4


James Watson (co-discoverer of the structure of DNA): "Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours." 5


Steven Weinberg: "I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer. But in fact the perception that God cannot be benevolent is very old. Plays by Aeschylus and Euripides make a quite explicit statement that the gods are selfish and cruel, though they expect better behavior from humans. God in the Old Testament tells us to bash the heads of infidels and demands of us that we be willing to sacrifice our children's lives at His orders, and the God of traditional Christianity and Islam damns us for eternity if we do not worship him in the right manner. Is this a nice way to behave? I know, I know, we are not supposed to judge God according to human standards, but you see the problem here: If we are not yet convinced of His existence, and are looking for signs of His benevolence, then what other standards can we use?"



References used:

religioustolerance.org

The following information sources were used to prepare and update the above essay. The hyperlinks are not necessarily still active today.
Gene Johnson, "Iraq war, gas line God's will, Palin said," Associate Press, 2008-SEP-04, at: http://www.adn.com/
Video clip from Sarah Palin's speech. YouTube, at: http://www.youtube.com/
Quoted in the Massachusetts Family Institute's E-Alert for 2004-JUL-09.
"The Existence of God," UCADIA.com, at: http://www.ucadia.com/
Roger Highfield, "DNA pioneers lash out at religion," London Daily Telegraph, 2003-MAR-24, at: http://washingtontimes.com/
Steven Weinbert, "A Designer Universe."

Quotes about God [ Authors F to K ]

Richard Feynman: "God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven't figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time -- life and death -- stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out." 1


Charles Fort: "If there is a universal mind, must it necessarily be sane?"


Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: "God has no religion."


Goethe: "As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd."


Sherwood Goozee: "Christian reference to 'God the Father' also poses a problem. Show me a father who wants his children prostrate before him, praying, pleading for mercy, worshiping him, and who then doles out rewards to the chosen submissive ones, and I'll show you a bad father." From the essay IZ Sense.


Sam Harris: "Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world." Sam Harris is author of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason.


Christopher Hitchens: "God did not make man in his own image. Evidently it was the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilizations."


Thomas Jefferson: "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."


Arthur Koestler: "God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out."



References used:

religioustolerance.org

The following information source was used to prepare and update the above essay. The hyperlink is not necessarily still active today.
Quoted by P.C.W. Davies and J. Brown in "Superstrings: A Theory of Everything," Page 208.

Quotes about God [ Authors A to E ]

E.S. Abernathy, Jr.: "where no explanation exists, there can only be one answer: God and not just any God but their God." From a review on Amazon of the book "20 Compelling Evidences That God Exists: Discover Why Believing In God Makes So Much Sense" Review / order it Abernathy does not believe this; he is pointing out an error by the authors of the book.


David Anderson: "The God or Gods we worship are more a part of us than we realize....Only by understanding how in our own minds we have defined their nature can we begin to understand the underlying forces that make us behave the way we do.."

Anon: "You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image, when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." Sometimes attributed to Anne Lamott or Fr. John Weston.


"How each of us understands the meaning of life comes down to how we answer one ultimate question: Does God really exist?" (Taken from a WCNY/PBS advertisement for a program "The Question of God.)"


"No one doubted the existence of God until theologians starting trying to prove his existence."


"God's hatred is one of his Holy attributes." A statement from Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KA.


"I screamed at God for all the starving children, and then I realized that all of the starving children were God screaming at me."


"Some say God is nowhere. Others say God is now here. One space makes all the difference."


The/an anonymous author of the Gospel of John: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16; KJV)


Paraphrase of John 3:16: "For God so hated humanity that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever does not believe in him will not perish but have everlasting life being tortured for all eternity in Hell without hope of forgiveness."

Susan B. Anthony: "I distrust those who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."


Karen Armstrong: "Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves."

Louis Agassiz (famous 19th century scientist): "It is the job of prophets and scientists alike to proclaim the glories of God."


David Anderson, "We pattern our thoughts and actions after the God or Gods we worship. They are more a part of us than we realize. Only by understanding how in our own minds we have defined their nature can we begin to understand the underlying forces that make us behave the way we do."


Ron Buford: "God is still speaking," A slogan adopted by the United Church of Christ. It was partly inspired by a statement by Gracie Allen allegedly written to her husband George Burns: "Never place a period where God has placed a comma." 1


President George W. Bush: "I don't see how you can be president at least from my perspective, how you can be president, without a relationship with the Lord," 2004-JAN-11 in an interview with The Washington Times. 2


Joseph Campbell: "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought."

Richard Dawkins: "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all of fiction. Jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic-cleanser; a misogynistic homophobic racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal ..." 3


"The trouble is that God in this sophisticated, physicist's sense bears no resemblance to the God of the Bible or any other religion. If a physicist says God is another name for Planck's constant, or God is a superstring, we should take it as a picturesque metaphorical way of saying that the nature of superstrings or the value of Planck's constant is a profound mystery. It has obviously not the smallest connection with a being capable of forgiving sins, a being who might listen to prayers, who cares about whether or not the Sabbath begins at 5pm or 6pm, whether you wear a veil or have a bit of arm showing; and no connection whatever with a being capable of imposing a death penalty on His son to expiate the sins of the world before and after he was born."

Meister Eckhart: "Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness."


Jonathan Edwards: "The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God."


Bart Ehrman: "Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option -- legend."


Albert Einstein: "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself (or herself) in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds."


"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."





References used:

religioustolerance.org
The following information sources were used to prepare and update the above essay.
"God is still speaking," United Church of Christ, at: http://www.stillspeaking.com/
James G. Lakely, "President outlines role of his faith," The Washington Times, 2004-JAN-12, at: http://washingtontimes.com/
Richard Dawkins, "The God Delusion," Houghton Miffin, (2006). Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store